70% Growth in Acquiring New Clients During the First Month of #crisis2020.

Learn how we used #stayathome situation to triple the number of clients acquired monthly for one of the biggest players on the Polish food delivery market.

0%Increase in revenue from the first year

0%Growth in audience size

0%Increase in email list after 1st year of platform existence

Take your business online and the opportunities to grow are virtually limitless. Read on to discover how we helped a cybersecurity company increase revenue and boost brand awareness by showcasing their presence online and launching a new, fully digital branch of their business. This is what happens when you take a really good idea and support it with top-notch marketing know-how.

I. THE BACKGROUND & MISSION

PRODUCT:Food Delivery App

LOCATION:Poland

PRICE:Varies on the food ordered

At the end of 2019, an international food delivery company reached out to us to help them keep the service on the Polish market with further plans of expanding it there. The main challenge was to decrease the CAC (CPFTU – cost per first-time user) as its high rate prevented the business from maintaining profitability. The company did not apply a working digital sales funnel strategy and it was our suggestion to implement it as the first step of our cooperation.

Digital sales funnel implementation enabled us to warm up audiences with content videos in a storytelling format that we also helped produce (from the script-writing phase to the promotion of completed assets). Later, we remarketed video viewers and people who clicked on ads with various visually-appealing creatives, using our internal advanced testing frameworks. Hundreds of creatives included: product animations, testimonials, banners featuring food images and restaurant seasonal and special promotions. With such a strategy applied, we managed to lower the CPFTU by 76% and it keeps decreasing.

Due to The March outbreak of the COVID-19 virus people had to stay at home, which, in a natural way, contributed to more online orders of food delivery. The situation made us quickly reevaluate our strategy and we decided to adjust it with media budgets and funnel simplification. As a result, our monthly KPIs were overachieved, so we have continued our actions with estimations to improve these results further for at least 100% in April.

3 Key Goals

1Scaling ads to help more people #stayathome thanks to food delivery

2Lower the CPFTU by 5x

3Increase the FTUs number by 4x

We decided to launch our client’s educational online platform with a course specifically designed for professionals with advanced cybersecurity skills. To ensure the teaching level of the course remained high, a selection process was used to allow only applicants with a significant amount of cybersecurity knowledge onto the course. Applicants were asked to apply with their CV and a link to their LinkedIn profile. Those who were not qualified were screened via interview by the client’s in-house cybersecurity experts.

Limiting the course to highly skilled applicants created a sense of scarcity around the product, driving up its desirability. Plus, it elevated the reputation of the product from a simple training course to a premium training program for “the best of the best.”

To underline the high status and distinction of the course, we decided to broadcast live sessions with the company’s specialists (including the CEO). This technique meant instruction could take place in a learning environment which more closely echoed a traditional classroom.

Next, we created a training lab where participants could practice hacks safely. We also set up a shared Facebook group in which participants could communicate, share tips and celebrate their progress with each other.

The success of this initial course for professionals gave us the idea to create more courses for other cybersecurity professionals of a different level or expertise, such as beginners or intermediate ones. This approach allowed us to scale revenue and open the door to the people who were initially not accepted to enroll in the advanced course.

8 key tactics we used:

1

TACTIC IValuable Content

The market research helped us to better understand the cybersecurity education market’s needs and how to make the course appeal to the target persona. Armed with this information, we decided to create a series of educational videos in the form of free weekly online hacking tutorials for IT enthusiasts and specialists.

Creating a free learning resource containing valuable knowledge imparted by world-class cybersecurity specialists helped our client to build brand awareness, demonstrate the high quality of their teaching material, and establish themselves not only as a provider of high-quality paid for training, but also as a benefactor to the cybersecurity community.

2

TACTIC IIWebinars with Q&A Participation

Live webinars provided a way to engage with potential customers while also showing off the expertise of our client in real-time. Webinars, which always ended with a sales pitch, were conducted in an informal atmosphere. Hacking challenges were included to boost engagement and, to make sure viewers didn’t switch off before the sales pitch, the winner of the challenge was always announced at the end of the webinar. The high show-up rate for webinars was the critical part of the campaign for the final conversion from signups to applications and then sales.

3

TACTIC IIIThe Power of Social Media

Social media played a big part in our strategy, being used for multiple purposes to attract, engage and delight the customers. LinkedIn was used to boost the client’s reputation and to create more opportunities for the distribution of content and promotional material. Facebook was used for both promotion and community management since we connected the client with the customers through private Facebook groups.

4

TACTIC IVCampaign Optimization

Course applicants were required to submit their applications during a designated period which we dubbed an application round. Restricting the period in which applications were accepted gave us the opportunity to play with scarcity, discounts, time and seat limits while marketing a course. This helped the performance team, giving them more freedom over the creative and technical aspects of ad management. As a result, we were able to reduce the CAC, which is key in any online education project.

5

TACTIC VEmail Marketing

Right from the beginning of the project, we put a huge amount of effort into building a valuable email list. To aid engagement, emails were written in geeky language tailored to the persona and featured content of a much higher quality than the market average. The end result was a fantastic list which played a crucial part in our success. And of course, engaging the cybersecurity community over email helped us on our way to reaching the sales KPIs.

6

TACTIC VISeasonal Promotions

Holidays and internationally recognized special days such as Cyber Monday were a great opportunity for us to further boost the effectiveness and reach of our existing campaigns. Time-sensitive offers that were related to these days were promoted through owned and earned media to our email list and to audiences that had been warmed with previous content via social media.

7

TACTIC VIIPersonal Branding

The CEO of the company is a world-renowned cybersecurity professional who travels the globe helping companies and government organizations to detect vulnerabilities in their cybersecurity and delivering keynotes at the industry’s leading conferences. We capitalized on the CEO’s strong personal branding, creating promotional materials featuring their image to bring more recognition and credibility to the courses. This helped us to bring in more applications for courses which later translated into sales.

8

TACTIC VIIExpert Contributors

To broaden the audience our client’s content reached, we invited cybersecurity specialists from outside the company to contribute tips and content, give interviews, and participate in webinars as co-hosts.

Technology Used

WebinarJam

Webinarjam was used to host our live webinars. We used another platform by the same creators – Everwebinar – to record webinars for distribution later. This tool made it easy to manage our marketing campaigns thanks to its integration with our CRM and marketing automation tool Ontraport.

Ontraport

This platform’s easy-to-use features, wide range of integration possibilities and excellent software performance made it the perfect choice to use as our CRM system and marketing automation tool.

Bit.ly

Bit.ly helped us to organize shared links on our client’s social media channels. Plus, its tracking and reporting feature let us use it to cross-check our other tracking tools. This link-shortening tool made it simple to include branded links in offline events.

Sumo

It has tons of useful features like pop-ups and sticky bars that helped our visitors engage with the website more. Its integration with our marketing automation tool Ontraport was a plus.

Zapier

Zapier was used to connect the different tools to increase our productivity while decreasing the workload.

Stripe

Stripe was a convenient solution to manage our payments. Its effortless integration with the website made our work easier at an international level.

PayPal

We used PayPal as an additional payment method as this global system with a high usage rate among our audience.

GoToTraining

Our live and personalized classes were hosted in GotoTraining. This gave instructors a high-quality dashboard that was convenient and reliable

Typeform

With its unique completion process and easily customizable design features, this tool was a natural first-choice for lead collection and definitely helped us to increase the conversion rate.

Intercom

Live chat and support functions were provided by Intercom which uses advanced automation and organization features to increase sales.

Amazon S3

One of the world’s most widely-used video hosting tools, Amazon S3 gave us smooth streaming features for our recorded webinars.

OneSignal

OneSignal helped us to engage with our website users through notifications they received via their internet browsers.

Traffic Channels

Facebook

Twitter

Linkedin Personal Accounts

Linkedin Ads

GDN

Google Search

YouTube

Quora

Email

Push Notifications

Organic

Direct

Referral

IV. THE RESULTS

Within two years of our client launching their first-ever online cybersecurity training course in 2016, we managed to increase their revenue by 202%. We achieved this feat by deploying a range of different tactics which included adding more courses to expand the client’s product range, increasing the user base and improving the accuracy of our targeting.

Every strategy we used in our first year was analyzed and optimized before being fed back into the client’s digital marketing funnel. Continuous fine tuning streamlined our client’s overall marketing strategy into a sleek and effective machine.

After the first year of the project, the audience number more than tripled, increasing by 347%. This was partly the result of the special care and attention we took when creating valuable free content to share. Another key tactic which helped to grow the audience was the creation on social media of a space in which the cybersecurity served by our client could congregate and interact.

+202%

Increase in revenue from the first year

+347%

Growth in audience size

+57%

Increase in email list after 1st year of platform existence

THE EXPERTS TEAM

Constantine YevishkinDigital Project Marketing Manager

Yusuf UcuzDigital Project Marketing Manager

Michał DybcioDigital Content Marketing Specialist

Adrián Abad GarcésDigital Project Marketing Manager

Supporting team

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